The Canik METE MC9L is a striker-fired 9mm built for concealed carry. It has an MSRP of $510, and the L is a longer grip. Canik stretched the frame and the gripping surface of its micro-compact and got 17 rounds out of it.

That puts a service-pistol magazine in a 6.25-inch pistol 5.43 inches tall, with two 17-round magazines in the box and the standard and extended Canik sub-compact magazines both fitting the same well. The longer grip arrives with a different trigger from the rest of the line, a curved shoe where Canik's full-size pistols use a flat face. The slide has an optic interface, the front sight is a white dot over a blacked-out serrated rear, three backstraps come with it in small, large and extended, and safety is a trigger lever and a firing pin block with no manual lever.

If you're cross-shopping, the Canik METE MC9 has an MSRP of $440 and is the short-grip version at 21.27 oz, holding 15 rounds and 4.52 inches tall, which conceals better and gives up two rounds and a finger's worth of grip. The Sig Sauer P365 X-Macro holds the same 17 rounds at 21.5 oz on a 6.6-inch frame, with a 3.1-inch barrel and a compensator cut into the slide.